Mothering Sunday and the Sunday Pic Spam.

[curiouswombat]

I hope all the other Mums on LJ are having a good day - the Moms get their chance later!

We had a lovely service at church, only a couple of minor glitches - and a small pause to think of all those who would be facing their first Mothers' Day without their mother. I would ask you all to spare those people a moment - someone you know, or just generally, such as D-d's house-mate whose mother died at Christmas, or my brother-in-law and his siblings.

My gift from D-d was based, as you might have guessed from the last of the 365 posts, on those pictures. She had a 6x8 collage done of each week's pictures and then put all 52 into a pretty silver and pink album for me.

Under the cut I will include a poem we used in church and then some pictures of life this week -

Firstly the poem -

Without You

Mum, without you, there would be no me.
Your love, your attention, your guidance,
have made me who I am.
Without you, I would be lost,
wandering aimlessly,
without direction or purpose.
You showed me the way
to serve, to accomplish, and to persevere.
Without you, there would be an empty space
I could never fill, no matter how I tried.
Instead, because of you,
I have joy, contentment, satisfaction and peace.
Thank you, mum.
I have always loved you
and I always will.

Joanna Fuchs.

And now - some pics - we still don't have daffodils out - but what a wonderful year it has been for snowdrops and crocuses - especially blue crocuses - here are some at St Johns -



And these two pictures are the Rectory garden at Bride - there is currently no rector and so the house is empty - and the gate was open...

So - a drift of snow drops -



And a carpet of crocuses -



Now a couple taken as I did dog walking duty at the Point of Ayre for my Mum on Saturday - a shot I have taken before, but it was not a car ferry that I recall seeing before - the upper car deck being enclosed -



The smudge on the horizon is the Mull of Galloway - it was a nice clear day.

I took another picture when the same boat had rounded the Point - ten minutes or so later - and had hit the adverse current. You can see in the first picture that wind and forward speed pretty much match - the smoke is going more or less straight up. But after it rounded the Point, it was being slowed down so much by the current being against it that the smoke is now being blown faster than the ship is moving so that, instead of streaming behind it, it is streaming in front of it!



As part of the 365 project I took a picture of D-d and my Mum - for Mothering Sunday I got a very pretty frame and put a copy of the picture in it - so this is a picture of a picture in a frame -



We also got Mum a tapestry cushion with 'Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much' embroidered on it - it is a good philosophy that suits her.

The final picture was taken this afternoon - S2C and I went out for coffee and cake (and to get him a new mouse...). In the Eden Garden Centre (where we bought cake, not mice...) S2C was really, really, taken not with the carved ducks, which he thought were 'quite nice, as birds go', but with their special carrier bags -



Aren't they wonderful?



Enjoy the rest of your day - both Mums, Moms, and other friends.

Comments

[manoah.livejournal.com]

So nice that you had a good day. Your family is lovely.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you. My family, like any other, have their moments...